Re: required power, need some advice

Posted by Rod F. on June 28, 2005 at 09:10:22 from (142.177.72.76):

In Reply to: Re: required power, need some advice posted by James2 on June 28, 2005 at 05:44:43:

You know, you might still be further ahead, having done what you did. You got a piece of junk, at junk price. You may just have easily bought a piece of junk, and paid a not so junk price. I bought an 11' Pittsburg disc a few years ago at an estate auction. The disc never did more than a few days work in the 30 or so years the guy had it. Blades not worn.... should be a good disc. Steel was still 30 years old. Hitch has been torn off more times than I care to count. More broken blades than I care to mention, and 2 broken gang bolts, along with numerous bearings. I fab'd a new flotation hitch this spring. Solved that problem. Pricing new blades out today. Somewhere in the $45 Cad range, EACH. I may be able to make a disc of it yet.
Bottom line, I paid too much for an old disc. Hundred bucks was about what it was worth, for scrap.... This was one of the good "ready to work" discs. Doing it again, I would buy new, or buy scrap and rebuild it.

Rod

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